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News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and MoreSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:24:37 +0000en-UShourly1When Europe slowly surrenders to intolerancehttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/europe-slowly-surrenders-intolerance/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/europe-slowly-surrenders-intolerance/#commentsTue, 26 Aug 2014 09:51:00 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=621256One unfortunate truth to emerge about the nature of the global anti-Israel movement this summer is that many protesters are challenging Israel's very right to exist, not its policies in the territories that it came to occupy in 1967.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/08/26/commentary/world-commentary/europe-slowly-surrenders-intolerance/feed/2In this Gaza war, the truth lies undergroundhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/gaza-war-truth-lies-underground/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/gaza-war-truth-lies-underground/#commentsMon, 28 Jul 2014 10:36:12 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=605802One of the more astonishing facts of this Gaza war is that the tunnels that Hamas has dug under the border with Israel are not designed for commerce, but for kidnapping. The tunnels reportedly contain tranquilizers and handcuffs, seemingly meant to gain physical control over Israelis who have been seized.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/28/commentary/world-commentary/gaza-war-truth-lies-underground/feed/1Does Hamas want to get Palestinians killed?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/15/commentary/world-commentary/hamas-want-get-palestinians-killed/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/15/commentary/world-commentary/hamas-want-get-palestinians-killed/#commentsTue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:36 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=598218Is Hamas trying to get Israel to kill as many Palestinians as possible? Dead Palestinians represent a crucial propaganda victory for the nihilists of Hamas.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/15/commentary/world-commentary/hamas-want-get-palestinians-killed/feed/0Obama should expedite a nation for the Kurdshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/obama-expedite-nation-kurds/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/obama-expedite-nation-kurds/#commentsThu, 03 Jul 2014 09:00:04 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=592672President Barack Obama could put the U.S. on the right side of history — and the right side of justice — by expediting the liberation and nationhood aspirations of Iraq's Kurds.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/obama-expedite-nation-kurds/feed/1Obama’s cold-eyed ‘management’ of policyhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/obamas-cold-eyed-management-policy/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/obamas-cold-eyed-management-policy/#commentsSun, 01 Jun 2014 09:09:59 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=568173The White House faces a strange conundrum. Polls show that many Americans want a foreign policy that does not go out looking for fights and Obama is delivering on that. Yet his approval ratings remain generally low.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/obamas-cold-eyed-management-policy/feed/1Is it right to describe Israel as an apartheid state?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/05/05/commentary/world-commentary/is-it-right-to-describe-israel-as-an-apartheid-state/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/05/05/commentary/world-commentary/is-it-right-to-describe-israel-as-an-apartheid-state/#commentsMon, 05 May 2014 09:46:26 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=558783Although a de facto apartheid already exists in the West Bank, one of reasons to avoid using the term apartheid is that it doesn't start conversations. It ends them.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/05/05/commentary/world-commentary/is-it-right-to-describe-israel-as-an-apartheid-state/feed/0When will Netanyahu nail himself to the cross?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/when-will-netanyahu-nail-himself-to-the-cross/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/when-will-netanyahu-nail-himself-to-the-cross/#commentsTue, 15 Apr 2014 09:28:22 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=551387U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is not wrong to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will, sooner or later, have to stop nailing himself to small crosses (prisoner releases, minor settlement compromises) and move to the big cross: endangering his right-wing coalition to advance to final-status negotiations with the Palestinians.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/15/commentary/world-commentary/when-will-netanyahu-nail-himself-to-the-cross/feed/0Kerry sees efforts thwarted by the Middle Easthttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/06/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-sees-efforts-thwarted-by-the-middle-east/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/06/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-sees-efforts-thwarted-by-the-middle-east/#commentsSun, 06 Apr 2014 09:14:34 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=547043It appears as if the latest U.S. attempt to make the Palestinians and Israelis embrace reason toward a peace deal is failing. God bless U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for trying.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/04/06/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-sees-efforts-thwarted-by-the-middle-east/feed/0Kerry errs when he invokes specter of boycotts of Israelhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-errs-when-he-invokes-specter-of-boycotts-of-israel/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-errs-when-he-invokes-specter-of-boycotts-of-israel/#commentsMon, 10 Feb 2014 14:00:21 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=521493U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry cleverly addresses every worry articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Kerry's big mistake in his approach to negotiations is his need to publicly invoke, repeatedly, the specter of an international campaign to boycott Israel.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/02/10/commentary/world-commentary/kerry-errs-when-he-invokes-specter-of-boycotts-of-israel/feed/1Three more bad omens on Iran nuclear talkshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/01/31/commentary/world-commentary/three-more-bad-omens-on-iran-nuclear-talks/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/01/31/commentary/world-commentary/three-more-bad-omens-on-iran-nuclear-talks/#commentsFri, 31 Jan 2014 14:00:28 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=516034As we get closer to the main negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, it's hard to find an auspicious sign in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's recent statement that under no circumstances would Iran agree to destroy any of its centrifuges.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2014/01/31/commentary/world-commentary/three-more-bad-omens-on-iran-nuclear-talks/feed/0Six reasons to worry about the Iran nuclear dealhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/six-reasons-to-worry-about-the-iran-nuclear-deal/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/six-reasons-to-worry-about-the-iran-nuclear-deal/#commentsFri, 06 Dec 2013 13:55:20 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=491069The interim nuclear agreement between the Great Powers and Iran is creating a lot of anxiety for people who support the deal, because not much proof has been offered to suggest that it will actually work.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/12/06/commentary/world-commentary/six-reasons-to-worry-about-the-iran-nuclear-deal/feed/0Bibi and Obama head for a showdown on Iranhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/bibi-and-obama-head-for-a-showdown-on-iran/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/bibi-and-obama-head-for-a-showdown-on-iran/#commentsTue, 08 Oct 2013 14:00:40 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=465094Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's message to the U.N. was simple: If Iran doesn't abandon its nuclear ambitions in the coming months, we're going to have a crisis.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/10/08/commentary/world-commentary/bibi-and-obama-head-for-a-showdown-on-iran/feed/0New Syria agreement a big victory — for Assadhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/17/commentary/world-commentary/new-syria-agreement-a-big-victory-for-assad/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/17/commentary/world-commentary/new-syria-agreement-a-big-victory-for-assad/#commentsTue, 17 Sep 2013 14:00:16 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=456337The real losers in the new Syrian agreement are the Syrian people, who will continue to be raped, tortured and slaughtered.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/17/commentary/world-commentary/new-syria-agreement-a-big-victory-for-assad/feed/0Bad week for a hateful televangelisthttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/bad-week-for-a-hateful-televangelist/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/bad-week-for-a-hateful-televangelist/#commentsSun, 14 Jul 2013 14:02:19 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=410092The week of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's ouster was also a bad one for the Al Jazeera television network and a hateful Sunni televangelist.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/14/commentary/world-commentary/bad-week-for-a-hateful-televangelist/feed/0Bye-bye to the Brotherhoodhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/bye-bye-to-the-brotherhood/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/bye-bye-to-the-brotherhood/#commentsSun, 07 Jul 2013 14:02:12 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=407019There are many good reasons to be grateful for the turn of events in Cairo. Women and the 10 percent of Egyptians who are Christian should be pleased.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/07/commentary/world-commentary/bye-bye-to-the-brotherhood/feed/0John Kerry’s bid for Mideast peacehttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/john-kerrys-bid-for-mideast-peace/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/john-kerrys-bid-for-mideast-peace/#commentsWed, 03 Jul 2013 14:11:22 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=404972The U.S. goal of getting Israel's prime minister and the Palestinian Authority president together for direct talks about the most divisive issues is noble but quite futile.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/07/03/commentary/world-commentary/john-kerrys-bid-for-mideast-peace/feed/0Is NSA’s snooping worse than TSA’s groping?http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/13/commentary/world-commentary/is-nsas-snooping-worse-than-tsas-groping/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/13/commentary/world-commentary/is-nsas-snooping-worse-than-tsas-groping/#commentsWed, 12 Jun 2013 15:00:06 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=381461A former NSA contractor who washes up in a Chinese city-state to rail against the state of U.S. privacy doesn't hold a lot of credibility with many Americans.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/13/commentary/world-commentary/is-nsas-snooping-worse-than-tsas-groping/feed/0White House has Susan Rice where it wants herhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/white-house-has-susan-rice-where-it-wants-her/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/white-house-has-susan-rice-where-it-wants-her/#commentsSat, 08 Jun 2013 15:05:57 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=378431Susan Rice's appointment to be the next U.S. national security adviser is payback for her loyalty to Barack Obama and a thumb in the eyes of her Senate critics.

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/09/commentary/world-commentary/white-house-has-susan-rice-where-it-wants-her/feed/0Obama reveals support for ‘strong Jewish state’http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/obama-reveals-support-for-strong-jewish-state/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/29/commentary/world-commentary/obama-reveals-support-for-strong-jewish-state/#commentsThu, 28 Mar 2013 15:03:59 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=opinion&p=333502Operation Desert Schmooze, President Barack Obama’s two-day charm offensive in Jerusalem last week, achieved its central goal of convincing Israelis that the U.S. president doesn’t have horns. Obama’s achievements were partly symbolic. Merely by smiling and saying comforting words about Israel’s inherent legitimacy, he went a long way toward neutralizing a Republican propaganda campaign that […]